EXHIBITION

Ripple Ripple Rippling

This multisensory exhibition tells situated stories of the entangled flows of people and land around an ordinary village in China. Curated visual, sonic and bodily encounters surface hidden changes in Chinese rural homes and village landscapes that enable the floating labour force who sustain the country’s urbanisation. The exhibition also reveals how the transformative process of this work has unfolded over a decade, and reflects on its evolving methods and media of communication, which interweave architecture, anthropology, filmmaking and performance.

After a journey that has expanded outwards from architecture, the exhibition at the AA is a moment of homecoming to the place where this project originally began.A work-in-progress house foundation at 1:1 scale on Bedford Square juxtaposes a key material register of the complex social and economic conditions in the village onto this privately-owned public space in central London – all while providing a stage for performances and food-sharing as well as a living garden. The corresponding exhibits in the AA Gallery include a walk-around screening of the Ripple Ripple Rippling film trilogy, and multimedia storytelling that brings together drawings, photographs and field footage.

The exhibition was supported by the Architectural Association,  Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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